Jaywalking

[kimba1]

http://www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous3.html

wondering how smart ben franklin is?

andy warhol- lol

I`ve seen his work- not surprise

[Xavier_Onassis]

Warhol had a type of intelligence that does not register well on IQ tests. I am not all that impressed with his works, either. But he had a knack for making people realize that even commercial art like soup cans and such has a degree of artistic organization to it, and can be looked upon as a form of art.

Art is art, but the official art world will look at a painting and say that it is average for the period. Then you tell them that it was done by DaVinci or Picasso and suddenly, they see it as a masterpiece. That is just silly.

There is this story that someone brought Picasso a painting he had just purchased,and ask him if it was a fake. Picasso looked at it for a while and said, "yes." The owner said, "well, here I have a signed certificate! Is this your signature?" Picasso said, "yes, the signature is mine. But I often paint fakes."  Or words to that effect.

Meaning that he painted it for money, not because he was in an artistic mood when he did it.

I sort of question any comparison of IQ's of people unless they took the same exact test: the pre-1900's examples are estimates, and I imagine that some of the others are as well.

[Amianthus]

IN the future will our English soak up more foregn words and grammars , or will we resort to an academe like the French have to regulate the changes?

I once heard the following:

"A sure sign of the immanent death of a language is the creation of councils to regulate changes to that language."

[Amianthus]

Despite the legend propagated by Longfellow, I doubt he said, "The British are coming!". After all, at the time, he and the other colonists were the British.

Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Revere warned patriots along his route - many of whom set out on horseback to deliver warnings of their own. By the end of the night there were probably as many as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County carrying the news of the army's advancement. Revere did not shout the famous phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols; also, most colonial residents at the time considered themselves British as they were all legally British subjects. Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out."  Revere arrived in Lexington around midnight, with Dawes arriving about a half hour later. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were spending the night at the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, and they spent a great deal of time discussing plans of action upon receiving the news. Revere and Dawes, meanwhile, decided to ride on toward Concord, where the militia's arsenal was hidden. They were joined by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who happened to be in Lexington "returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m."

Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by British troops in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; Dawes also escaped, though soon after he fell off his horse and did not complete the ride. Revere was detained and questioned and then escorted at gunpoint by three British officers back toward Lexington. As morning broke and they neared Lexington Meeting-house, shots were heard. The British officers became alarmed, confiscated Revere's horse, and rode toward the Meeting-house. Revere was horseless and walked through a cemetery and pastures until he came to Rev. Clarke's house where Hancock and Adams were staying. As the battle on Lexington Green continued, Revere helped John Hancock and his family escape from Lexington with their possessions, including a trunk of Hancock's papers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#The_Midnight_Ride_of_Paul_Revere

[Xavier_Onassis]

Okay, so Longfellow felt that "The British are coming!" was a more poetic phrase than "The regulars are coming out!" It IS a poem.

And Betsy Ross did not invent or even sew, the flag, either.

Zachary Taylor was not born in a log cabin. Abe Lincoln split only 23 rails in his entire career.

George Washington did not mess with his father's cherry tree or throw a dollar across the Potomac.

 

[kimba1]

I find most IQ test very difficult to do but somehow I still get a good score.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The analogy questions are very annoying, but that is what the test is about: challenging your reasoning skills.

[kimba1]

I have touble with the what doesn`t belong part with geometric patterns.  I always had to guess and judging from my scores my subconscience is most definately smarter than me.